Dish’s Sling TV attracts new customers, but not enough to boost the company’s overall subscriber count during the third quarter of 2015.

Even with its launch into a new way to watch TV this year, Dish Network reported Monday that its total pay-TV subscribers dropped during the third quarter, compared to a year earlier.

The Douglas County satellite TV service provider ended September with 13.909 million pay-TV subscribers. A year ago, it had 14.041 million.

Dish pay-TV subscribers continues to drop in its 3rd quarter 2015, just like most traditional pay-TV companies.

The number includes new customers from Sling TV, the live-TV streaming service Dish launched earlier this year. The novel service strips away the old rules of pay TV by charging a standard $20 a month with a simple sign up, no long-term contract and no cancellation fees.

Sling won’t say how many subscribers it has but in March, just two months after launching, Sling had 169,000 paying customers, according to Dish.

The company did make more money during the third quarter. It reported net income of $146 million on revenues of $3.73 billion. Last third quarter, net income was $146 million on revenues of $3.68 billion.

Dish also said that the number of gross new subscribers is up — 751,000 compared to last year’s 691,000. But if you subtract customers who left the company, the net pay TV subscribers declined 23,000, compared to a decline of 12,000 a year ago. Pay TV customers this quarter did pay about $2 more per monthly bill, with the average revenue per user at $86.33, compared to last year’s $84.39.

For the first nine months of 2015, Dish reported net income of $872 million on revenues of $11.29 billion. A year earlier, net income was $535 million on revenues of $10.96 billion.

Dish will host a webcast of its earnings at 10 a.m. Details are available HERE.

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